East Enders View Traditional Cache
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An uphill walk on paths until the last 20m.
Team Feverpitch have recently moved to this area and wanted to place our first cache in celebration of reaching 50 finds.
We suggest you park in the vicinity of N 55 51 788 W 004 12 690 to make the most of this cache. Alternatively you can get the train straight to Alexandra Parade train station which is an ideal starting point.
History
The Park takes its name from Princesss Alexandra, the wife of the future King Edward VII, who officially opened the Park in 1870.
- the City Improvement Trustees purchased Alexandra Park in 1866 from Mr. Walter Stewart of Haghill under special powers conferred upon them by legislation. The grounds were acquired to provide a park and recreation ground for the north eastern section of the City.
- at the time of purchase the land was cold, barren and bleak with very few trees upon it.
- between 1867 and 1868, during the great trade depression, several hundred unemployed and starving artisans and labourers were employed in the initial work of the formation of the park and the laying-out of the park.
- the Park initially extended from Monkland Canal to Cumbernauld Road, and was known as Wester Kenny-hill. It was principally an agricultural ground which had been held in the possession of the Stewart family for several generations.
- Mr. Alexander Dennistoun, the proprietor of the adjoining estate of Golfhill, gifted five acres of land to the City Improvement Trustees. This ground was situated near the south-west corner adjacent to Alexandra Parade, which now forms the principal pedestrian entrance.
- great difficulties were experienced initially with the desired plantings due to the thick impregnate industrial atmosphere. In general, they found that many of the evergreen trees and shrubs had great difficulty in establishing, coping and withstanding the winter and the atmospheric pollution. However, they found that the broad-leaved hollies, rhododendrons and acubas with stood this environment. Many of the deciduous trees excelled in this atmosphere and to this day form the main planting structure.
You'll find a boating lake and a 9 hole gold course within the park as well as the 40 foot cast-iron Walter MacFarlane Saracen Fountain which was gifted to Glasgow in 1901 and restored in 2000.
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